Channel 11 first came out to East Ohio Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side on Monday after a viewer reached out over concerns that a building was going to fall down. Since then, a brick wall, which appears to be bowing out, has been reinforced with steel.
On Tuesday, Sept. 3, a property owner on East Ohio Street called 911 to report an “imminent fear” of collapse. The next day, the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure condemned buildings in the 400 block of East Ohio Street, which are currently being rehabbed by Greece Contracting LLC.
“A lot of the buildings we work on here are old, run down,” said Ross Greece with Greece Contracting LLC. “They haven’t been occupied in a while. We do sometimes get a condemned notice just because the safety of the structures of the buildings we remodel aren’t safe to begin with.”
Over the last five years, Greece Contracting LLC has renovated close to a dozen different buildings on East Ohio Street. They have their eyes set on at least five more properties. But right now, their focus is on transforming the historic buildings in the 400 block into revamped spaces for three new restaurants, a gelato shop and apartments.